Brabbling Women
Subtitle: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801440526
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Social law; Women's studies; Virginia; Legal History; History - General History; Women's Studies - General; History - U.S.; United States - Colonial Period; History: American; Legal status, laws, etc; Women's Studies - History; History; Women; Gender & the Law; 18th century; Legal status, laws, etc.; Sex customs
First sentence: LADY FRANCES BERKELEY, the wife of Virginia's governor, Sir William Berkeley, was as much involved in Virginia's politics as her husband was.